I wouldn't recommend it but I ran my 40 HP Beetle about 5 miles on a mixture of kerosene, diesel, lacquer thinner, mineral spirits, carb cleaner, and ??? (back in '93). Was living in Naples, Italy and the local gas stations went on strike for a week for reasons unknown to me. We had advance warnings from local friends so we stock piled a bunch of gasoline in plastic Jerry cans (wish I still had those). Ran out of reserve gas and the gas tank in my Beetle was so low the gas gauge needle wouldn't move when the ignition was turned on. So started down the road with this "new" gas in the tank. Got a couple miles down the road before the car lost power and started smoking and sputtering. Went the rest of trip and sat in a gas line at the gas station for several minutes. Had to fast idle the car to keep it running. Got my gas (never stopped the engine - what's the difference the fellow pumping it for me was smoking???) and went back home. About half way the motor smoothed out and all was well. Don't think I would do this to anything modern or that had fuel injection though... Interesting experiment. Chris M. <Busbodger - "TEAM SLOWPOKE"> Cookeville, Tennessee ICQ# 5944649 scm9985@tntech.edu '78 VW Westfalia (67 HP -> that is...67 Hamster Power) '65 Beetle - Type IV powered '99 CR-V AWD station wagon '81 CB900 Custom moto-chickle 2.5 Corvair engines for my Trans-vair Conversion |
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